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Volume CHI, Number 47 University of Southern California Friday, March 20, 1987
Recent editor suspensions spur debate
DT to sponsor a discussion of college press’ legal rights
By Shawn Pogatchnik
Staff Writer
In response to the recent suspensions of newspaper editors at UCLA's Daily Bruin and Cal State Northridge's Daily Sundial, the Daily Trojan will sponsor a discussion on the legal rights of college newspapers to publish without interference, this Saturday, March 21.
Editors and reporters from 33 daily and weekly university newspapers in Southern California have indicated they will attend the meeting, which will be held at Vivian Hall of Engineering, Room 202, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. They will discuss the rights of a campus paper's editorial staff, the legal limitations to prior review of controversial copy, and whether or not college administrators have the power to censor that copy.
The meeting is open to the public.
"We're hoping that we can make some statement as a group on student press rights," said James Lee, editor of the Daily Trojan and the chief organizer of the discussion.
"To a certain extent, this meeting came about because of the apparent violation of freedom of the press in the suspension of the UCLA and Cal State Northridge editors," Lee said. "But in a larger scope, college editors don't communicate. . .we all tend to operate in a vacuum. . .and that can be very detrimental because what happens on one campus can be im-
portant to another."
"There are a lot of cases right now dealing with First Amendment rights," he said. "College and high school papers are losing a lot of their press rights. I don't think that happens here (at the Daily Trojan), but it is happening at public universities. Right now, a lot of people are having to fight their own battles."
The Daily Bruin's editor, Ron Bell, and art director, Brian Fujimora, were suspended on Feb. 12 by the Associated Students of UCLA Communications Board for printing a comic strip, U.C. Rooster.
Lee said this meeting could encourage mutual understanding and a unified voice among editors. "It has to be made clear that even if the newspaper is 100 percent subsidized by the state, it is still entitled to full freedoms of the press," he said.
The Daily Bruin's editor, Ron Bell, and art director, Brian Fuji-
mora, were suspended on Feb. 12 by the Associated Students of UCLA Communications Board for printing a comic strip, U.C. Rooster, which offended some campus special-interest groups. The two editors were reinstated the next day.
But when James Taranto, news editor of the Sundial, reprinted the comic strip in conjunction with an editorial he wrote about "violence and censorship" at UCLA, he was suspended for two weeks by the newspaper's adviser. Taranto's suspension ends March 23.
Both cases of suspension, Lee said, violated the students' press rights as guaranteed by the First Amendment.
Lee cited another case of a First Amendment violation — when the San Diego State University campus paper, the Daily Aztec, was shut down by that university's administration last November for endorsing a political candidate. Under a then-existing California law, newspapers at public universities could not make such political endorsements.
But when the Aztec's editor took the university to court to reinstate the newspaper, "a federal appellate judge struck down the California law (that barred political endorsements) as unconstitutional," Lee said.
Two lawyers and an American Civil Liberties Union representative will also attend the discussion, outlining legal (Continued on page 6)
Bus fares may increase
By Yamil Berard
Staff Writer
Due to a proposal to modify service by the Southern California Rapid Transit District, students may face bus fare increases and limited access to express routes commuting to the Los Angeles city district next semester.
Once the plan is approved, college and vocational identification card fees will increase from $15 to $20 a month, while the general bus fare will increase from 85 cents to $1 beginning June 28.
"With the current rates, students get 17.6 rides for the price that they pay. You have to take 20 rides with the new rates to break even," said John Hyde, a RTD spokesman.
RTD express lanes that currently transport residents from different parts of Southern California to downtown jobs may either be placed under city or county supervision or terminated altogether, he said.
Line 448 from Palos Verdes to Los Angeles by way of the Harbor Freeway and encompassing Los Angeles and the university area, may be "privatized" under city control, Hyde said. "This means
College and vocational identification card fees will increase from $15 to $20 a month, while the general bus fare will increase from 85 cents to $1 beginning June 28.
that the route may be given to a private contractor and Proposition A money would be used to subsidize it."
Route 448 serves only 154 people over a six-trip spread. "That means that 26 people ride each time — a handful may go to USC," Hyde said. Most of the people who commute from Palos Verdes on this line are employed in downtown L.A., he said. "The impact will be minimal on USC."
RTD will quit providing the express lines because it "loses more money on expresses not heavily traveled," Hyde said. "The average passenger fare costing $1 may cost us S3 to $4. Most of the cancellation list includes the San Gabriel Valley and not the USC area."
"(The expresses) do not provide wide, public service. The limited stops of the express lines give access to an average of 15 riders on a one-way trip of one or more hours. District or local routes meet more of the public's demands," Hyde said.
The fare hikes have been implemented to "help reduce the deficit," he said.
Saturday morning at 10 a.m., the opinions and concerns of RTD administrative officials, employees and riders will be voiced at a public hearing at the RTD's offices.
GUR1 DHAUWAL / DAILY TROJAN
Paul Heckler shows great tennis form as he concentrates on returning the ball yesterday in front of Tommy Trojan at noontime.
Students to sharpen skills at leadership conference
By John Perrone
Staff Writer
A conference featuring various experts on group organizational behavior will be held tomorrow (Mar. 21) in an effort to enhance leadership skills among students, as well as show participants what is available to them on campus.
The event, sponsored by the Public Relations Student Society of America, will be held from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on the second floor of the Topping Student Center. Admission is free, and refreshments will be served at the "get acquainted" segment which will open the seminar.
"One thing we want to do to make the day work is to get people introduced to other people," said Rodney Maddox, PRSSA's director of public relations at the university.
William Faith, public relations director at the School of Journalism, will end the Leadership Conference and Communication Fair with a keynote speech he hopes will "bring all the elements (of what the students have learned) together." He intends for the speech to put the whole day into perspective and set a tone for the future of com-
WILLIAM FAITH
munications skills.
The morning agenda will feature two rounds of workshops split into 45-minute segments. The workshop categories include: implementing plans and ideas; forms of motivation; conducting meetings; public speaking; delegation of responsibilities; goal-setting and strategic planning; team building; recruiting and maintaining personnel; and time management.
Rori Horlacher, a student activities program adviser, will conduct the time-management workshop. One goal of the morning workshops, she said, will be the formation of teams for the afternoon communications fair segment.
Each team will consist of eight members, and each member will attend separate mini-presenta-
tions by participating campus organizations. Each organization will describe how they operate and how they can help other groups. Scheduled to speak are representatives from the Program Board, KSCR, Student Senate, dining services, the Daily Trojan, Discretionary Board and career development.
This interaction, Horlacher said, will "acquaint (the students) with the resources available on campus."
"That's another purpose of the day," Maddox said. "The idea is to get them to share the information" they will have learned.
The teams will then meet and use the knowledge of how campus groups function, along with the accumulated skills offered by the morning workshops in simulating a business organization that is given a project to complete. David Crandall, student activities director, said this will require the skills taught in the morning.
"That's one of the neat things of the day — they will be doing all the stuff that organizations do," such as planning, decisionmaking, channeling individual talents and securing resources.

@fei% trojan
Volume CHI, Number 47 University of Southern California Friday, March 20, 1987
Recent editor suspensions spur debate
DT to sponsor a discussion of college press’ legal rights
By Shawn Pogatchnik
Staff Writer
In response to the recent suspensions of newspaper editors at UCLA's Daily Bruin and Cal State Northridge's Daily Sundial, the Daily Trojan will sponsor a discussion on the legal rights of college newspapers to publish without interference, this Saturday, March 21.
Editors and reporters from 33 daily and weekly university newspapers in Southern California have indicated they will attend the meeting, which will be held at Vivian Hall of Engineering, Room 202, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. They will discuss the rights of a campus paper's editorial staff, the legal limitations to prior review of controversial copy, and whether or not college administrators have the power to censor that copy.
The meeting is open to the public.
"We're hoping that we can make some statement as a group on student press rights," said James Lee, editor of the Daily Trojan and the chief organizer of the discussion.
"To a certain extent, this meeting came about because of the apparent violation of freedom of the press in the suspension of the UCLA and Cal State Northridge editors," Lee said. "But in a larger scope, college editors don't communicate. . .we all tend to operate in a vacuum. . .and that can be very detrimental because what happens on one campus can be im-
portant to another."
"There are a lot of cases right now dealing with First Amendment rights," he said. "College and high school papers are losing a lot of their press rights. I don't think that happens here (at the Daily Trojan), but it is happening at public universities. Right now, a lot of people are having to fight their own battles."
The Daily Bruin's editor, Ron Bell, and art director, Brian Fujimora, were suspended on Feb. 12 by the Associated Students of UCLA Communications Board for printing a comic strip, U.C. Rooster.
Lee said this meeting could encourage mutual understanding and a unified voice among editors. "It has to be made clear that even if the newspaper is 100 percent subsidized by the state, it is still entitled to full freedoms of the press," he said.
The Daily Bruin's editor, Ron Bell, and art director, Brian Fuji-
mora, were suspended on Feb. 12 by the Associated Students of UCLA Communications Board for printing a comic strip, U.C. Rooster, which offended some campus special-interest groups. The two editors were reinstated the next day.
But when James Taranto, news editor of the Sundial, reprinted the comic strip in conjunction with an editorial he wrote about "violence and censorship" at UCLA, he was suspended for two weeks by the newspaper's adviser. Taranto's suspension ends March 23.
Both cases of suspension, Lee said, violated the students' press rights as guaranteed by the First Amendment.
Lee cited another case of a First Amendment violation — when the San Diego State University campus paper, the Daily Aztec, was shut down by that university's administration last November for endorsing a political candidate. Under a then-existing California law, newspapers at public universities could not make such political endorsements.
But when the Aztec's editor took the university to court to reinstate the newspaper, "a federal appellate judge struck down the California law (that barred political endorsements) as unconstitutional," Lee said.
Two lawyers and an American Civil Liberties Union representative will also attend the discussion, outlining legal (Continued on page 6)
Bus fares may increase
By Yamil Berard
Staff Writer
Due to a proposal to modify service by the Southern California Rapid Transit District, students may face bus fare increases and limited access to express routes commuting to the Los Angeles city district next semester.
Once the plan is approved, college and vocational identification card fees will increase from $15 to $20 a month, while the general bus fare will increase from 85 cents to $1 beginning June 28.
"With the current rates, students get 17.6 rides for the price that they pay. You have to take 20 rides with the new rates to break even," said John Hyde, a RTD spokesman.
RTD express lanes that currently transport residents from different parts of Southern California to downtown jobs may either be placed under city or county supervision or terminated altogether, he said.
Line 448 from Palos Verdes to Los Angeles by way of the Harbor Freeway and encompassing Los Angeles and the university area, may be "privatized" under city control, Hyde said. "This means
College and vocational identification card fees will increase from $15 to $20 a month, while the general bus fare will increase from 85 cents to $1 beginning June 28.
that the route may be given to a private contractor and Proposition A money would be used to subsidize it."
Route 448 serves only 154 people over a six-trip spread. "That means that 26 people ride each time — a handful may go to USC," Hyde said. Most of the people who commute from Palos Verdes on this line are employed in downtown L.A., he said. "The impact will be minimal on USC."
RTD will quit providing the express lines because it "loses more money on expresses not heavily traveled," Hyde said. "The average passenger fare costing $1 may cost us S3 to $4. Most of the cancellation list includes the San Gabriel Valley and not the USC area."
"(The expresses) do not provide wide, public service. The limited stops of the express lines give access to an average of 15 riders on a one-way trip of one or more hours. District or local routes meet more of the public's demands," Hyde said.
The fare hikes have been implemented to "help reduce the deficit," he said.
Saturday morning at 10 a.m., the opinions and concerns of RTD administrative officials, employees and riders will be voiced at a public hearing at the RTD's offices.
GUR1 DHAUWAL / DAILY TROJAN
Paul Heckler shows great tennis form as he concentrates on returning the ball yesterday in front of Tommy Trojan at noontime.
Students to sharpen skills at leadership conference
By John Perrone
Staff Writer
A conference featuring various experts on group organizational behavior will be held tomorrow (Mar. 21) in an effort to enhance leadership skills among students, as well as show participants what is available to them on campus.
The event, sponsored by the Public Relations Student Society of America, will be held from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on the second floor of the Topping Student Center. Admission is free, and refreshments will be served at the "get acquainted" segment which will open the seminar.
"One thing we want to do to make the day work is to get people introduced to other people," said Rodney Maddox, PRSSA's director of public relations at the university.
William Faith, public relations director at the School of Journalism, will end the Leadership Conference and Communication Fair with a keynote speech he hopes will "bring all the elements (of what the students have learned) together." He intends for the speech to put the whole day into perspective and set a tone for the future of com-
WILLIAM FAITH
munications skills.
The morning agenda will feature two rounds of workshops split into 45-minute segments. The workshop categories include: implementing plans and ideas; forms of motivation; conducting meetings; public speaking; delegation of responsibilities; goal-setting and strategic planning; team building; recruiting and maintaining personnel; and time management.
Rori Horlacher, a student activities program adviser, will conduct the time-management workshop. One goal of the morning workshops, she said, will be the formation of teams for the afternoon communications fair segment.
Each team will consist of eight members, and each member will attend separate mini-presenta-
tions by participating campus organizations. Each organization will describe how they operate and how they can help other groups. Scheduled to speak are representatives from the Program Board, KSCR, Student Senate, dining services, the Daily Trojan, Discretionary Board and career development.
This interaction, Horlacher said, will "acquaint (the students) with the resources available on campus."
"That's another purpose of the day," Maddox said. "The idea is to get them to share the information" they will have learned.
The teams will then meet and use the knowledge of how campus groups function, along with the accumulated skills offered by the morning workshops in simulating a business organization that is given a project to complete. David Crandall, student activities director, said this will require the skills taught in the morning.
"That's one of the neat things of the day — they will be doing all the stuff that organizations do," such as planning, decisionmaking, channeling individual talents and securing resources.